Mozilla's new programming language (called Rust) may have been the top story of this last week, but our annual year-end series on top products and developments was almost as popular. Richard MacManus kicked off the series with the top 10 semantic Web products; we also looked at the top startups...
As the most recent WikiLeaks data dump continues to dominate headlines, one of the most striking aspects of the whole affair is how a low-level government operative was able to get their hands on so much sensitive data. Apparently, the federal government isn't alone in being lax with data security....
Googleannounced this morning that it has acquired U.K.-based speech synthesis company Phonetic Labs in an effort to "move a little faster towards that Star Trek future" where computers don't only listen, but they talk back, too.The company has been on a roll this year, introducing a number of features involving...
There's been a lot of talk about how the rapid development of Android's mobile operating system has led to increased fragmentation. With Gingerbread (Android 2.3)'s launch just around the corner, now is a good time to examine the state of Android fragmentation as it stands today.So, how bad is it...
Who knew that enabling small businesses to accept credit card payments on-the-go with an iPhone could be so difficult? Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's mobile payment solution, Square, has run into yet another hurdle and this time it isn't of the technical variety. The company has found itself in a battle...
While teens are renowned for the frequency with which they text, those in the 18-24 age range are also fairly avid text-messagers. According to data released from Nielsen this fall, that age group sends around 1,630 texts per month - roughly three texts per hour. So it's not terribly surprising...
HTML5, the next major revision of the markup language that the web is written in, presents exciting new possibilities for developers across many platforms and for user experience as well. Determining exactly what HTML5 ends up being, however, is not proving to be an entirely straightforward process. There's a lot...
Dice asked the participants at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara an interesting question: what can you do with enterprise 2.0 tools today that you couldn't do a year ago? Listening to the responses, three themes surface: adoption, awareness and integration. Much of the improvement we've seen in the past year comes...
According to a post from David Yach, CTO at Research in Motion (RIM), the company has acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a notable design and development firm best known for its amazing Android interfaces, 3D graphics, Android live wallpapers and widgets and it's unfortunately discontinued but incredible augmented reality facial...
ROAMpay, a mobile credit card reading device and application similar to Square, is now available on Blackberry devices. ROAM Data, the app's creators, tout it as the first credit card reader for Blackberry devices, adding that to a list of supported platforms that includes Android and iOS, as well as...
Google has just announced that it's releasing an official Google Reader app for Android. The app will support all the features you'd expect in a Google Reader app - unread counts, sharing, starring, and liking. But it has many more features that, no big surprise, may make it a better...
As part of our ongoing year-end analysis of what shaped the Web this year, we've created a report - The Top 5 Web Trends of 2010 - that looks at the most important topics: mobile, the Internet of Things, location-based social networks, the real-time Web, and structured data. Using Adobe's...
Only days after the official release of the first "jailbreaking" software program for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, its creators have decided to stop development of the program and remove the download from its host site, ?www.chevronwp7.com.This decision was made after a conversation between Microsoft's Brandon Watson, Director of...
Galois has released the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine today. The VM, released under a BSD license, allows users to run Haskell programs in Xen "on bare metal." Users will boot right into the Haskell application.From the company's announcement:What might you do with a HaLVM? Pretty much anything you want. :)...
If you've been within shouting distance of me over the last month, you've probably heard me singing the praises of Needlebase, a great new point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web. I've been using it for all kinds of things and now you...
Consumers under 35 - that is, those in Generations X and Y, the latter also referred to as "millennials" - tend to prefer using mobile applications over Web browsers on smartphones, as compared with older mobile users, a new study shows. Data collected by market research and consulting firm Parks...
Last week, hardware manufacturer Acer announced its Alive store, a single place to buy apps for all Acer platforms, including its newly announced Android and Windows tablets, plus its PCs and smartphones. The store, which launches in December in the UK and Italy, will begin rolling out to other markets ?worldwide in...
RunKeeper, an app described with terms like mobile, social, fitness and quantified self, has raised $1.1 million from forward-looking investors O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), the organizations announced this morning.RunKeeper lets users track their exercise experiences over time and share their performance metrics with friends. The service is a strong example...
We frequently write about enterprise mobility and how it's enabling remote work. But we don't spend much time on the implications of mobile technology on the personal lives of workers. Reading Ben Kepes' recent essay on the subject, I had a thought: should enterprise software start tracking workers time and...
Last week, Apple released iOS 4.2 with a surprise addition - the "Find My iPhone" feature. Previously a part of Apple's MobileMe subscription software, the service is now free and gives users the ability to track their device if it is misplaced or stolen. Beyond tracking, the feature also lets...
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